Kominfo Says Apple, Microsoft to Visit Indonesia for Apple Academy, AI Partnership

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) confirmed that there is a plan to meet with PT Microsoft Indonesia and Apple in mid-April 2024. Kominfo Minister Budi Arie Setiadi said that Apple will establish an Apple Academy in Indonesia.

“Microsoft wants to visit [Indonesia] in mid-April. Tim Cook's (Apple CEO) team will come on April 20. He wants to develop the Apple Academy. We will see and review it,” Budi Arie said in the ministry’s building in Central Jakarta on Thursday, March 21.

He said the meeting between the Kominfo Ministry and Microsoft was initially scheduled for April 17, 2024, but the date was subject to change. In the upcoming meeting, they will discuss technology and knowledge transfer in Indonesia's digital transformation.

“[It will be] a follow-up to what we talked about before, because whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence will continue to develop,” the minister said.

Previously, the Kominfo Ministry and PT Microsoft Indonesia had discussed cooperation to increase synergy in strengthening the implementation of information technology and digital transformation in the government sector.

Meanwhile, a meeting with Apple aims to discuss the establishment of the Apple Developer Academy. Budi claimed that the goal was to train human resources to make them more competitive digitally. 

Indonesia, he went on, needs a lot of cooperation and adoption from various global technology players.

“Apple wants to open the Apple Academy. It is already operating in BSD Tangerang, Batam, and [the next one] will be in Bali,” Minister Budi Arie said.

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